Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-31

services were performed and tender hands
cast sweet flowers upon the little mound:
of those dear ones who sleep side by side
in the silent city of the dead. The new
cemetery is a wilderness of flowers
and the graves are tastefully kept
One grave in particular, thai
of Foster j. Wilder, was rendered very
attractive by the beautiful and artistic
decorations so skilfully placed upon it.
After the exercises were over the FRO
cession returned to the public squsre
where it was disbanded.
EVENING SERVICES.
J The evening services were held in the
opera house which, in spite Of the in
tense heat, was filled to OVERLOOKING by
the youth snd beauty of our city who
came TO grace the occasion and by The
elderly who came to Join in rendering
homage to the memory of the departed
desd. The stage was becomingly ar
ranged. A large cenotaph stood near
| the footlights over and around
which was folded an American
| flag. This was in memory of the unknown
dead who sleep in unmarked graves. a
little back aud to the right hung the pict-
ure Of President Lincoln; beneath and to
the right wss picture OF General Grant,
and underneath IL picture OF Garfield
Directly underneath WAS q picture OF
President arthur and to the right
was that OF Lee and large
steel engraving of Lee and Jackson
In the center of these pictures was wal
map showing the position of the troops
at the battle of Gettysburg on July 8,
1863, at $40 p. m. The map vas ex-
planned by Judge Cummings in few
preliminary remarks. Above the mar
was the picture of two soldiers, one in
blue and one in grey, lying, as thousands
have lain, cold and dead upon
the battlefield. The map was
of great assistance to the
audience in enabling them to fully appre-
ciate the sitaution. In front of the stage
the Post was seated: Confederate yeter-
ans were seated at the right front of the
stage; Union veterans were seated at the
left front OF the stage; Texas and Next
can war veterans were assigned the sests
of honor in the boxes Commander I'm
ersou, Adjutant Brown, the representa-
tives of the press, the vocal music corps,
Elder Gavin and his reverend gentlemen
companions, His Honor the Mayor, off
GERS of the city government ond members
of the City Council, the Hon. Judge
Cummings and other orators of the ocCa-
sion, and volunteer platoon composed
OF Texas, Mexican, National and COnted-
crate war veterans, were seated on the
stage.
MAYOR BRoILEs.
After an earnest prayer by the chaplain,
Mr.. Allison, and the reading Of numerous
orders from various headquarters, Mayor
% IN
Mayor Bfolles spoke briefly and earnestly
and aOly depicting in most vivid man
ner the true character of the American
people. twenty-five years ago the War
ended nOminally, though really it was
but niceteen years since universal peace
was established and the victorious sol
diers who wore the blue, with true Amer
lean magnanimity, which Is quick
to hate and ready to forgive,
extended the hand OF friendship to their
proud and equally generous rivals who
had sunk beneath the fortunes of war.
He commended the Grand Army of the
Republic for their patriotic efforts to
commemorate the fame and glory OF those
Of their COuntrymen who have fallen
and said that such proceedings as we
have witnessed to-day were productive OF
much goOc lu Cementing the bonds of
frgternal feeling between the north and
south and in teaching the young the first
lessons of patriotism. We have only &
very few of the old Texas and Mexican
war veterans with US here to-day; nine
teen years hence, there will b. few Of the
old soldiers of the civil war left TO tell
the tale. But il matLeTed little how soon
the hand of time should obliterate us
from the living present. our memories
Will be cherished and our graves kept
green by those who come after US IS long
as liberty lives and the traditions of q
free government exist. On conclusion OF
Mayor BrOiles speech, which is mere
synopsis, he introduced
JUDGE c. C. CUMMINGS.
The orator of the occasion, Judge Cum
mings, in few preliminary remarks eX-
planned the map of the b little Of Gettys-
burg. There was considerable of the
grim ironry Of fate il the Judges re-
marks as he pointed out where the
various generals and bettslions were
stationed on that eyentful day. His
empty sleeve hanging by his side,
3 relic of that dreadful conflict,
gave silent evidence that the
Judge knew what he was speaking
about. Il was graceful act in the post
to select one who had opposed them on
that fsteful day, and a wise act in the
post to select gentleman whose Grafton
will add much that is splendid and vglu.
able to the war literature Of the country.
Judge Cummings said:
Soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic:
By your kindly invitation / am before YOU to
day to assist you in paying the tribute of devC-
tiOn due to the memory of those who have died
fer the cause of right. according as cod gave
them the light to see the right, as was go truly
said by the noble Lincoln I'm the long ago, and
who now stands on the other shore, along by
G. side of our Lee, JeCkOutng US, the blue and
the gray, and encouraging us In the way of the
universal brotherhood of our once distracted
Ration. " e strew flowers to day upon the al
tars of both the blue and the gray. Most cheer
fully do we accept the trust, to mtngle our
voices, our tears and the p Lrfumes of our flow
eTs over the Gust of those who died that ma
ton might live. And though we struggled each
on different sides, and in different ways, at last
can We say we have come to dwell together in
peace and brotherly love
TO ALL, FROM ALL, AND FOR ALL.
We not only commemorate these blue ana
these gray. but now that we recall it, this is
anew by such sacrifices as we see here, spread
out on this map, on thousand similar plains
So we strew Il wers, and mourn for those who
sleep, either on q foreign strand or ia our own
land, and who died for the right, as they
saw It.
And since these two grand figures here we
see of your Lincoln and ou- Lee (both ours
now, and yours,) have been gathered to our
fathers. we are again one peOple-with one
heart and one flag. 1t Is irst of all meet and